Born in Los Angeles, Walsh played running back in the San Francisco Bay Area for Hayward High School in Hayward.

Born Laura Augusta Gainor in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, her family moved west to San Francisco during her childhood.

Born in Romania, Pascal lives in the San Francisco, CA area of the US, and works in association with Christopher J.

Born in Los Angeles, Kavner grew up in Southern California, attending Beverly Hills High School and later San Diego State University.

Born in Roma in 1904 and moved to San Antonio, Texas in 1910.

Born in San Diego, he grew up in Rawlins.

Born Giovanni Rota Rinaldi, into a musical family in Milan, Rota was a renowned child prodigy — his first oratorio, L ' infanzia di San Giovanni Battista, was written at age 11 and performed in Milan and Paris as early as 1923 ; his three-act lyrical comedy after Hans Christian Andersen, Il Principe Porcaro, was composed when he was just 13 and published in 1926.

Born to Jewish parents in San Francisco, his family was financially ruined by the 1906 earthquake.

Born in San Francisco, California, Weinberger served in the 41st Infantry Division in the Pacific theater of World War II.

Born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Hench attended numerous art and creative schools across the country, including the Art Students League of New York, the Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, the San Francisco Art Institute in San Francisco, and the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles.

Born 15 March 1943, Sylvester Stewart was the second of five children raised in Vallejo, in the northern San Francisco Bay Area.

Born Dorothy Walton Gatley at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas, to George G. Gatley and Elizabeth " Bessie " Crabb.

Born in Los Angeles, Palast attended John H. Francis Polytechnic High School and transferred to San Fernando Valley State College ( now California State University, Northridge ) in 1969, before his senior year of high school.

Born in Hamburg and raised in Malaysia, Behr studied at San José State University, California and Goldsmiths College, London.

Born in San Francisco, Feinstein graduated from Stanford University.

Born in California, Adleman grew up in San Francisco, and attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he received his BA degree in mathematics in 1968 and his Ph. D. degree in EECS in 1976.

Born in Fargo, North Dakota, he currently lives in San Francisco, California.

Born in Milan's San Marcellino district, Castiglione studied painting in Italy with Carlo Cornara of the renowned Bottega degli Stampatori painting studio.

Born in San Francisco, California, and raised in the College Park neighborhood of Orlando, Florida.

Robert Edward Machado ( better known simply as Rob Machado ) ( b. October 16, 1973 Sydney, Australia ) is an Australian Born American professional surfer from Cardiff-by-the-Sea, a community in Encinitas ( San Diego County ), California.

Born in Shanghai, Soong arrived in the United States at the Port of San Francisco, CA on June 30, 1904 aboard the SS Korea at the age of 14 to begin her education at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia.

Born in Benediktbeuern, he moved to Rome in 1711 to study at the Accademia di San Luca with Carlo Maratta.

Born in San Francisco, California, Heilmann attended Sacred Heart High School, the same school that Joe Cronin attended.

Born in Eastland, Texas, Hayden Fry was descended from one of the Texas First Families ; his great-great-grandfather fought beside General Sam Houston in the Mexican War against Santa Anna in the battle of San Jacinto.

Born October 13, 1952 in San Bernardino, California, but considers Ogden, Utah, to be his hometown.

Born to Russian immigrants, Lewitzky spent her childhood in a utopian socialist colony in the Mojave Desert, and on a ranch in San Bernardino.

Born in San Bernardino County, California, Barrett reportedly dated Gwen Stefani in the 1990s while she sang in the band No Doubt.

Born in 1927 in San Bernardino, California, Fisher was raised and educated in Utah, calling Clearfield home.

Born in Los Angeles, California, Shearer began his career as a child actor, appearing in The Jack Benny Program, as well as the 1953 films Abbott and Costello Go to Mars and The Robe.

Born September 26, 1962 in Berkeley, California, she began her career as a child actress.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, DiCaprio started his career by appearing in television commercials prior to landing recurring roles in TV series such as the soap opera Santa Barbara and the sitcom Growing Pains in the early 1990s.

Born in Los Angeles, California, he graduated from the University of Southern California law school and began in the movie business as an assistant director to Tod Browning in 1920, but honed his skills at the Hal Roach Studios for the rest of that decade.

Born in Los Angeles, California, Asher is the son of gallerist Betty Asher and Dr. Leonard Asher.

Born in Chicago and raised in Danville, California, Bassler received a Bachelor of Science in biochemistry from the University of California, Davis and a Ph. D. in biochemistry from Johns Hopkins University.

Born in Oakland, California, he studied at University of California at Berkeley ( earning his B. Sc.

Born in the Bronx, New York City, Davis moved to California with his family as a child in 1954.

Born in Bern, Idaho, he moved with his family several times in childhood, while his father searched for work before settling in Los Angeles, California.

Born in Wisconsin in 1846, he held various occupations in Arizona, California, Utah, Wisconsin, South Dakota, and Washington state.

Born and raised in Orange County, California, as of 2008 MacDougall and his wife have five children, and five grandsons.

Born on the Fourth of July was written in Santa Monica, California during the fall of 1974 in exactly one month, three weeks and two days.

Born in Hayward, California, Evans began his career at age 12, appearing in various commercials.

Born into a musical family in McComb, Mississippi and raised in Carson, California, Norwood first appeared in a supporting role on the short-lived ABC sitcom Thea in 1993.

Born in Los Angeles, California, she started her Hollywood career as a ' patcher ', editing films by D. W. Griffith, around 1915.

Born in La Jolla, California, McKellar moved with her family to Los Angeles when she was eight.

Born and raised in Hermosa Beach, California, he formed Black Flag at the age of 21 with guitarist Greg Ginn and performed on the band's 1978 debut EP Nervous Breakdown.

Born in Bloomington, Illinois, Winchell and his family moved to California when he was 9 years old.

Angela Isadora Duncan ( May 27, 1877 – September 14, 1927 ), was an American dancer, Born in California, she lived in Western Europe and the Soviet Union from the age of 22 until her death at age 50.

Born in El Cerrito, California, Allman knew from an early age that he wanted to work in computing, breaking into his high school's mainframe and later using the UC Berkeley computing center for his computing needs.